His Dark Materials

This weekend I've been gobbling Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.  I only wish I'd had it to read as a kid - I would have read it over and over as I did Victoria Walker's The Winter of Enchantment and Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greek Heroes.  I like what Pullman writes in his Acknowledgements at the end of The Amber Spyglass: 'My principle in researching for a novel is "Read like a butterfly, write like a bee"'.